Spring and Autumn 2019

RM Seminars

The RM Seminars are back in 2019, bringing key industry experts and insightful content to a location near you.

Join us for a day of free technical CPD for school network managers and technicians, designed to help you make the most out of technology in your school and keep ahead of industry trends. New this spring, we will be holding an evening reception designed for senior leaders and decision makers to network and have the opportunity to hear an inspiring talk from an industry favourite.

Book your FREE place below to guarantee your seat, places are extremely limited, so book today to avoid disappointment.

SLT event guest speaker: Charlotte Aynsley

Charlotte has a broad range of experience in the field of internet safety - for 10 years she led Becta’s advice and support to Government, local authorities and schools on keeping children safe online. She also worked with Dr Tanya Byron on her review of Safer Children in a Digital World - leading the implementation and co-ordination of the education recommendations in the Review.

In April 2010, Charlotte became Director of Practice at the award winning children’s charity – Beatbullying, where she was responsible for the innovative Cybermentors programme, a peer to peer online support service for children and young people. In 2011, Charlotte was seconded to CEOP where she conducted a review of CEOP’s educational programmes and made recommendations to CEOP’s board on the future direction of the Thinkuknow programme which has been delivered to over 24,000 professionals across the country.

Since 2012, Charlotte has become a freelance e-safety consultant and trainer. She has worked on programmes and initiatives with organisations including Walt Disney, The NSPCC, Talk Talk and developed the Parent Zone’s Parenting in the Digital Age programme. She has supported local authorities, the police, children’s organisations and international NGO’s in educating parents, children and young people in all things esafety.

Charlotte is a member of the CEOP Education Advisory Board and was previously a member of the Safer Internet Centre advisory board and the Internet Watch Foundation’s board.

We’re pleased to announce Charlotte as our guest speaker, where she will explore the latest online safety issues and trends in schools. NSPCC and RM Education have partnered to ask over 1200 schools about their approach to online safety, we will be exploring the results and showcasing a best practice approach

Further
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Click on the session titles below to download the content and resources from that session at the 2018 RM Seminars. For session content from the previous round, click Autumn 2017.

Ben Jones, Senior Support Consultant

We will be focusing on modern day management and deployment of devices and applications, alongside data storage strategies – This session will cover everything from the new cloud management tools available through RM to Azure based storage solutions available for those wanting to expand their data storage capabilities in a flexible and easily scalable way.

With the increasing number of cyber attacks and a combination of traditional techniques such as social engineering alongside modern technology, it is becoming increasingly important to adopt a breach mentality. The question is when and how will I have a breach, rather than will I have a breach. We will look at what is best practice for a layered approach to security to give your school the most effective defence against cyber attacks and minimise the disruption when you do get a breach.

Windows as a Service (WaaS) is a new concept, introduced with the release of Windows 10. In this session we are going to look at the key concepts of WaaS, and how WaaS will impact the way you keep your client computers up to date. We will look at how RM will keep CC4 Windows 10 clients updated, and spend some time discussing how Vanilla Microsoft clients and Intune managed clients are kept up to date.

With the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to come into force on 25th May 2018, this session will take you through the 8 simple steps that we have devised to ensure GDPR compliance in your school.

Any school, regardless of size, needs to manage access to information and applications which are scattered across a number of internal and external systems. The challenge is to provide the right people with the right access at the right time. This session will highlight the benefits of utilising RM Unify for managing access and identity.

Microsoft have secured Office 365 at their end, but there are lots of measures that can be put in place to reduce attack vectors at your end. This session will cover the scoring system for Office 365 security, and the actions you can take to increase your score.

You have heard of Office 365, you have heard of Intune for Education and Windows 10. What happens when you combine the power of these three? Sound like a movie or a session you can’t afford to miss? You will leave this session aware of what Microsoft 365 is, enthused by some of the tools and motivated to try this back at school armed with ideas.

What is Microsoft Teams? How can it be used in schools and in the classroom? How could schools roll Teams out effectively? Take a look through this presentation by Alan Crawford, Microsoft Innovative Educator, to understand how Microsoft Teams could be making a difference in your school.

Intune for Education provides a simpler way to deploy technology. Watch Alan Crawford's, Microsoft Innovative Educator, presentation to understand how Intune for Education makes device management easy and gives you all the information you need to get started.

Check out our roadmaps to see what we're working on within the following areas: Device and User Management, Online Safety, Security Services, Connectivity Services and Backup/Archive. Read about what we're currently working on, what's next on our agenda, and what our future plans are for each area. Please note: These roadmaps are accurate at the time of the Autumn 2017 seminars.

In this session, we looked at the top types of backup and disaster recovery options available on the market today. The pros and cons, and cost vs functionality. We highlighted the key points you need when scoping a new backup solution, including RPO, RTO, STR and LTR; plus we showed how safe the data actually is and the nightmares waiting to happen.

This session explored how schools can understand the risks to children online and how they can put together a whole school strategy. We looked at the kind of policies that need to be in place, the technical solutions, the education for students and the training for teachers to help keep children safer online.

We looked at the cloud technologies that Microsoft and Google are offering schools; as part of this we delved into the detail of how the likes of School Data Sync (SDS) works; its uses, key features, but also limitations. By working with Microsoft and Google, RM are able to help you automate your user provisioning together with key user information. Device management out of the box with Microsoft and Google is not enough, RM can help with that too.

Using G Suite at your school but yet to properly check out the hundreds of settings and preferences available? Dean got hands-on with the admin dashboard to make sure you’re compliant with EU law before delving into setting up user, device and app settings for your school.

Completely new to G Suite or you’ve heard about Google Classroom but haven’t experienced it? We took a look at what it’s like to work with your colleagues and students completely in the cloud. That means you can get the same experience no matter where you are, what device you’re using or what network you’re connected to. With the power of RM Unify and RM Buzz, everything’s taken care of, including logins for hundreds of supporting apps and filtering for students at home.

In this session, we looked at UE-V on a Connect-on-Prem network, the new replacement for roaming profiles. We showed how using UE-V will quicken the user experience and generate less network traffic. We also delved into the likes of deduplication on a CC4 network and how to prepare for the future.